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Friday 10: Roadrunner In The 2000s<p>You know, we've put out a lot of records over the years, and in the process we've taken chances on lots of young bands that, for some reason, kinda slipped under the radar. So for this week's <a href="http://open.spotify.com/user/roadrunnerrecords/playlist/084QqzpaLCkfN9GDediusK" target="_blank">Friday Spotify playlist</a>, we're re-introducing you to 10 bands whose music you may have forgotten about, or never heard in the first place. Enjoy!</p>
<p><br />The list:</p>
<p><br /><strong>Taking Dawn</strong>, "Like a Revolution" (from <em>Time to Burn</em>)<br /><strong>Baptized in Blood</strong>, "Mental" (from <em>Baptized in Blood</em>)<br /><strong>Still Remains</strong>, "The Worst is Yet to Come" (from Of <em>Love and Lunacy</em>)<br /><strong>Sanctity</strong>, "Zeppo" (from <em>Road to Bloodshed</em>)<br /><strong>CKY</strong>, "Plagued by Images" (from <em>Carver City</em>)<br /><strong>Five Pointe O</strong>, "Breathe Machine" (from <em>Untitled</em>)<br /><strong>Hail the Villain</strong>, "Try Hating the World" (from <em>Population: Declining</em>)<br /><strong>Billy Talent</strong>, "Turn Your Back" (from <em>Billy Talent III</em>)<br /><strong>Doubledrive</strong>, "Freightrain" (from <em>Blue in the Face</em>)<br /><strong>3 Inches of Blood</strong>, "The Goatriders Horde" (from <em>Fire Up the Blades</em>)</p>
<p><br /><a href="http://open.spotify.com/user/roadrunnerrecords/playlist/084QqzpaLCkfN9GDediusK" target="_blank">Listen now</a>!</p>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:00:00 +0000http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/news/spotify-playlist-2000s-20120330
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/news/spotify-playlist-2000s-20120330NEW SITE CHANGES!You may have noticed that over the past few months quiet changes have been made to the site. First we gave you new artist pages. Check out your favorite and you'll find widgets, videos, music, and much more. Plus they look great.<br /><br />A few weeks back we also updated our <strong><a href="/artists" target="_blank" title="roadrunner artists page">Artists page</a></strong>. You'll see highlighted artists up top in blue. These change as artists are updated with news, video, and music. This is a great page to make your first port-of-call after the news section!<br /><br />Today we've relaunched three other pages. <strong><a href="/music" target="_blank" title="roadrunner music">Music</a></strong> and <strong><a href="/video" target="_blank" title="roadrunner video">Video</a></strong> are all new. You can now embed all of our music and video posted to the site in your blog, web site, or MySpace/Facebook profiles. At the right of these pages you'll see charts driven by what YOU do on our site. You can also leave comments at all songs and videos, rate them, and favorite them in our new profile system (more on that in a sec). <br /><br />
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<br />&nbsp; <br /><br />The <strong><a href="/newreleases" target="_blank" title="roadrunner releases">Releases</a></strong> page has gotten a huge makeover. Every album now has its own home page where you can see the available tracks, rate it, leave a review, or comment on others' reviews. Snazzy huh?<br /><br />Finally, we just launched our new <strong><a href="/profile" target="_blank" title="roadrunner profiles">profile pages</a></strong>. If you're a subscriber to our email newsletters, you can log in, add your own picture, keep track of the latest updates on our site (and partner sites), follow your favorite videos and music, and tell us what bands you want to hear about. <br /><br />Of course, many of these new features require that you be a member of the site to use them, so please join today!<br /><br />We are, of course, in a beta phase and need your help to make the site work the best for YOU. If you see any problems or want to suggest changes to the new features, please send an email to webmaster@roadrunnerrecords.com with "NEW SITE REPORT" in the subject line. If you receive an error, please be as detailed as possible, including what page you were on, what browser you are using, and copy any error message you receive into the body of the email. <br /><br />Please feel free to leave comments here below!<br /><br />Cheers!<br /><br />Jeremy RosenMon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/news/new-site-changes
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/news/new-site-changesYES, WE HAVE A NEW BULLETIN BOARD!Believe it or not, there were as many people who thought we were April Fooling about the launch of our new <strong><a href="http://boards.roadrunnerrecords.com/" target="_blank">Bulletin Board</a></strong> as did the Avril Lavigne gag! Yeah, yeah, we know a <strong>RR</strong> BB upgrade was long overdue, but what do y'all take us for? Never mind, don't answer, just get on over there and sign up already, will ya? You may also have noticed we have an outrageous number of incredible contests (free iPod, free PSP, free V-Cast cellphone, etc.) going on in our <strong><a href="/freeshit/" target="_blank">Free Shit</a></strong> section, so if you feel lucky (well do ya...punk?) sign up now!Tue, 04 Apr 2006 18:23:00 +0000http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/news/yes-we-have-a-new-bulletin-board
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/news/yes-we-have-a-new-bulletin-boardROADRUNNER ON MYSPACEWe have a new page for you to bookmark alongside our main hub here at <strong>RoadRunnerRecords.com</strong>... Our newly revamped and relaunched official home on <strong>MySpace</strong> - come take a look at <strong><a href="http://www.myspace.com/roadrunnerrecords" target="&acirc;&euro;?_blank"> www.myspace.com/roadrunnerrecords</a></strong>. Once there, you can join our network of friends, make new ones to talk music and whatever else you please with, and enjoy everything from pictures, to banners, to videos and jukeboxes, to special promotions and prize giveways for all your favorite <strong>Roadrunner</strong> artists. We're looking forward to seeing you there and welcome your feedback to help us make <strong>Roadrunner</strong>'s <strong>MySpace</strong> page the best that it can be.Thu, 19 Jan 2006 12:09:00 +0000http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/news/roadrunner-on-myspace
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/news/roadrunner-on-myspaceROADRUNNER UNITED LIVE: THE PHOTOSThis past Thursday (12/15), will go down as one of the greatest shows in Roadrunner's history. Many great artists got together and performed some classic Roadrunner tunes with once in a lifetime dream pairings. If you missed it, our friends in METAL Injection got you covered. They captured the night in over 200 photos, including photos of members of SLIPKNOT (unmasked), KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, MACHINE HEAD, TRIVIUM, DEICIDE, BIOHAZARD, HATEBREED, HIM and many more. The photos are available for viewing by <strong><a href="http://www.metalinjection.net/gallery/rrunitedlive" target="_blank">CLICKING HERE</a></strong>. <strong>Roadrunner United:<em>The All-Star Sessions</em> is in stores now</strong>Tue, 20 Dec 2005 13:51:00 +0000http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/news/roadrunner-united-live-the-photos
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/news/roadrunner-united-live-the-photosWIN A ROADRUNNER LOADED iPODRoadrunner Records has put together a groundbreaking record to mark the label's 25th Anniversary. <strong>Roadrunner United </strong>The All-Star Sessions is IN STORES NOW and it &Acirc;&nbsp;is a master-class in hard rock/metal. 'Captains' Joey Jordison ( <strong>Slipknot </strong>), Dino Cazares (ex- <strong>Fear Factory/Brujeria </strong>), Robert Flynn ( <strong>Machine Head </strong>) and Matthew Heafy ( <strong>Trivium </strong>) play on the songs they have written and have also assembled a unique team of artists to appear on each track. I n cluding contributions from such metal luminaries as Corey Taylor, Paul Gray and Jim Root of Slipknot, Howard Jones and Mike D. from Killswitch Engage, Peter Steele and Josh Silver from Type O Negative, Dez Fafara of DevilDriver/Coal Chamber fame, Mark Hunter of Chimaira, King Diamond and members of Opeth, Machine Head, Fear Factory, Trivium, Sepultura, Soulfly, Deicide, Life of Agony and many, MANY more - this is an album in which the whole is even greater than the sum of it's parts. If you are a fan of METAL - be it black, death, thrash, trad, 'core or whatever the hell you want to call it - pick this album up because it is truly a testament to 25 years of the best metal has to offer all on one CD. Also includes an hour long bonus DVD on the making of the album. <strong><a href="http://www.roadrun.com/rrunited" target="_blank">Click here</a></strong> to preview music from the album, in stores now. <strong>YOU COULD WIN A ROADRUNNER LOADED APPLE IPOD</strong> How well do you know your Roadrunner history? In celebration of this landmark release, we are holding a Roadrunner Trivia Contest, and the top 4 winners of the contest will recieve brand-new Apple iPods with engraved signatures of all 4 captains, as well as the entire Roadrunner discography loaded onto it! So, what are you waiting for, <a href="http://www.roadrun.com/rrunited/trivia.html" target="_blank">start playing today</a>.Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:48:00 +0000http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/news/win-a-roadrunner-loaded-ipod
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/news/win-a-roadrunner-loaded-ipodIT'S HEREWe've been talking about it all week, and now it's here, the first track from the upcoming <strong>Roadrunner United</strong> <em>The All Star Sessions</em> release (coming October 11). The song <strong>"The Dagger" (unmastered)</strong> is now available for download in our <a href="http://www.roadrun.com/music" target="_blank">MUSIC</a> section. Go ahead and download, and rather than us tell you about the track and more on the release, read the words below from the writer of "The Dagger" (and Captain of the team that recorded the song), <strong>Machine Head's</strong> Robert Flynn: "Hey Fuckers! "Greetings from Derka Derkastan! And as we say there, "Fuck...derk, derk, allah...sherpa, sherpa...Muhamed jihad" (Yes, I've been watching WAY too much "Team America"). Just got back from doing a bit of press for the Roadrunner United album. RR flew me down to LA for a couple of days, and then to London, England to do some international press. As I'm sure most of you have read or heard by now, Roadrunner have decided to take on the seemingly ridiculous challenge of gathering, organizing and managing 60 musicians for a giant collaborative metal all-star effort. "Brainchild of Senior VP of A&amp;R (and longtime <strong>Machine Head</strong> champion) Monte Conner, these all-star sessions would follow a few basic "rules". Roadrunner would choose four "Captains", each Captain would write 4 songs, then assemble a "band" for each song comprised of other RR artists, past and/or present, currently on or off the label. Each Captain would record the 4 songs they had written with their chosen group, and then choose four <em>different</em> singers, one for each song. "When Monte originally left me a voicemail about this, I thought to myself, "Oooo-kaay...Monte's back on the crack again". I figured if I simply didn't return the call, it would all just disappear into the ridiculously complex crack-pipe haze that it had emerged from. But lo and behold, that guy managed to pester and prompt nearly 60 of us self-absorbed fuckers to be a part of this, and god damn if he didn't make shit happen. Hails and salutations to Monte Conner! "Team Flynn was comprised of 5 main musicians: Andols Herrick (ex-<strong>Chimaira</strong>) on drums, Christian Olde Wolbers (<strong>Fear Factory</strong>) on bass, Jordan Wheland (<strong>Still Remains</strong>) aka "The Pick Slide King" on rhythm guitar, Jeff Waters (<strong>Annihilator</strong>) on face-peeling shredder solos, and myself on rhythm guitar, keyboard and vocals. I wrote the music for 2 songs myself, "The Dagger" and "Rich Man", Dave McClain co-wrote the song "Army Of The Sun" with me, and Phil Demmel contributed a riff for "Independent". I produced and arranged all of the tracks at the same location used for the recording of <em>Through The Ashes Of Empires</em> (Sharkbite Studios) along with the honorable Sir Markus O'Keatonus on Lead Pro Tools. We rehearsed and recorded the songs in a week and a half, and I want to give a special shout-out to Andols for being the burger worshipping, drum-part-writing-out, saving the day super-slayer! He WROTE all of his drum parts out in drum-ese (drum-erican, drum-ish, drum-adian) and ate burgers for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, every day for 3 days...FUCK YEAH!! "When it came to the songs, I began writing them based around who I would like to sing them and then catering it to the singer. There was no guarantee that I would get the singers I wanted, as they could obviously go with any of the other Captains for whatever reason. But, being the humble fella that I am, I figured I'd go for the biggest and best singers on the label... why not huh? All that they could do was say no. I started envisioning Max from <strong>Soulfly/Sepultura</strong> on an old school <em>Chaos A.D.</em>-style thrash track, I imagined Corey from <strong>Slipknot</strong> on a long, slow, eerie, Sabbath-heavy track, I imagined Howard from <strong>Killswitch</strong> on a <em>More Things Change</em>-style track, and I imagined Tim Williams of <strong>VOD/Bloodsimple</strong> fame (and one of my favorite singers of all time) on a melodic but heavy, Muse-style track. Well, lo and behold, I got all four singers I wanted, and I haven't the slightest fuckin' clue how I managed to pull that off. "Max, Corey and Tim recorded their parts near their hometowns of Phoenix, Des Moines, and New York respectively, while Howard asked me to produce his vocals here in Oakland. Mr. Jones flew out to Sharkbite for a couple of days, and we bounced ideas around while grubbing on bomb-ass vegetarian-chicken fried rice from Golden Lotus and ass-kickin' pollo adobado burritos from Cancun Taqueria. I had written a vocal melody and some lyrics for a melodic part that he loved, and as we were banging ideas back and forth, he asked if I'd sing on the track with him. At first I was like, "Nah, this is all you dude!", and he was like, "No man, I really want you to sing on this with me", but I was still like, "I don't know man", then he was like, "Dude, I really want you to sing on this with me", and ya know...Howard is a very large man, who just happens to be built like a brick fucking shithouse...so, I enthusiastically said "OK!" and we rocked the fuck out. I ended up singing some of his lyrics on the pre-chorus, we both sang the melodic hook, did some screech trade-offs, and basically kicked that fucker's ass! So much so, that at one point, we joked that this <em>duet</em> was the frickin' "Ebony and Ivory" of Metal. For me, it was probably the toughest song to part with musically, since it could have easily been a <strong>Machine Head</strong> song, but Mr. Jones fucking KILLED IT, so if it had to go, at least it went in <em>supreme</em> style. Amazing singer, really good dude, killer vibe. "I gotta say, all of their contributions were phenomenal. Max's voice sounds hard as fuck, Tim's vocals are incredible and so damned original, and Corey Taylor just sounds fucking PISSED - very politically charged, and his voice has that mesmerizing quality that takes me back to something like "Bother" from <strong>Stone Sour</strong>, before kicking into that satanic vocal heaviness, like something off of the first <strong>Slipknot</strong> album. I LOVE this song! "The coolest thing about this is that, as amazing as everything had turned out going into the music stage of it all, I think it's the singers who really brought the final touch to the table and made these songs come alive. I feel like I gave them some <em>good</em> songs, and these guys made them <em>great</em> songs. Even though it felt like I was cheating on my band the whole time, I'm really stoked with the results, and want to thank my guys for patiently allowing me to take part in this very unique project. Having heard many of the other tracks from the other Captains, this record is going to be fuckin' awesome for a metal fan." <strong>Cheers, Fuckers! -Flynn</strong>Fri, 02 Sep 2005 12:13:00 +0000http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/news/it-s-here--2
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/news/it-s-here--2MUSIC TIME IS CLOSERWe are but two days away from hearing the first music off the upcoming <strong>Roadrunner United</strong> <em>The All Star Sessions</em> release. This first track titled "The Dagger" comes from captain Robert Flynn, and will be mastered tomorrow. As for the team Robert assembled for this track? On vocals is Howard Jones (<strong>Killswitch Engage</strong>). On bass is Christian Olde Wolbers (<strong>Fear Factory</strong>). Rhythm guitar duties were handled by captain Flynn and Jordan Whelan (<strong>Still Remains</strong>, currently on tour - check <a href="http://www.roadrun.com/artists/StillRemains/tour.aspx" target="_blank">TOUR</a> section for details). Drums are being handled by none other than Andols Herrick (ex-<strong>Chimaira</strong>), and on the lead guitar, Jeff Waters (<strong>Annihilator</strong>). More to come...music online this Friday... <strong>Roadrunner United <em>The All Star Sessions</em> in store October 11th</strong>Wed, 31 Aug 2005 17:43:00 +0000http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/news/music-time-is-closer
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/news/music-time-is-closerTHE DAGGERCome the end of this week, you will be hearing the first sounds from the upcoming <strong>Roadrunner United</strong> <em>The All Star Sessions</em> release (<a href="http://www.roadrun.com/news/story.aspx?newsitemID=9123" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a> for details on this release). The first song you will be hearing is titled "The Dagger," and it is one of the four tracks on the release coming from captain Robert Flynn. More details to come as the week progresses...with the song going online this Friday (9/2).Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:02:00 +0000http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/news/the-dagger
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/news/the-dagger57 ARTISTS, 47 BANDS, 19 TRACKS, 1 RELEASEROADRUNNER UNITED ? THE ALL-STAR SESSIONS, 57 ARTISTS, 45 BANDS, 19 TRACKS, 4 TEAM CAPTAINS? 1 GROUNDBREAKING ALBUM New York, NY - Roadrunner Records has put together a groundbreaking record to mark the label's 25th Anniversary. The group is called <strong>Roadrunner United</strong> and the album titled <em>The All-Star Sessions</em>. This full length release, in stores on October 11, 2005, is a 'master-class' in hard rock/metal. Boasting 57 artists from 45 of Roadrunner's past and present bands, the album will contain original tracks that are collaborations between numerous Roadrunner stars. Four central musicians were originally chosen to produce and write the songs. Joey Jordison (<strong>Slipknot</strong>), Dino Cazares (ex-<strong>Fear Factory/Brujeria</strong>), Robert Flynn (<strong>Machine Head</strong>) and Matthew Heafy (<strong>Trivium</strong>). These four musicians play on the songs they have written and have also assembled a unique team of artists to appear on each track. In order to cover as wide a spectrum as possible, no musician has played for more than one writer/producer and each song features a different vocalist. In addition to these stellar teams of musicians, there will also be special additional tracks from ex-Roadrunner artist, Josh Silver - <strong>Type O Negative's</strong> longtime producer / keyboardist. In the spirit of the project, Silver has included Roadrunner artists on his tracks as well? <strong>Opeth's</strong> Mikael Akerfeldt appears on the Silver-written ?Roads.? Track names from the Jordison team include ?Constitution Down? (with vocals by Kyle Thomas of <strong>Floodgate</strong>), ?Tired 'N Lonely? (with vocals from Keith Caputo of <strong>Life of Agony</strong>) and ?Annihilation By The Hand Of God? (with vocals from Glen Benton of <strong>Deicide</strong>) among others. Flynn's camp has completed songs like ?The Dagger? (with vocals from Howard Jones of <strong>Killswitch Engage</strong>) and ?The Rich Man? (with vocals from Corey Taylor of <strong>Slipknot</strong>) among others. ?The End? (with vocals from Matt Heafy of <strong>Trivium</strong>) and ?The Enemy? (with vocals from Mark Hunter of <strong>Chimaira</strong>) are some of the team-Cazares product. And tracks from Heafy's sessions include ?The Dawn of a Golden Age? (with vocals from Dani Filth of <strong>Cradle of Filth</strong>), ?Superheroes? (with vocals from Michale Graves of <strong>The Misfits</strong>) and ?Blood and Flames? (with vocals from Jesse Leach ? ex-<strong>Killswitch Engage</strong> singer). <strong>PARTICIPANTS:</strong> Michael &Aring;&pound;kerfeldt Rob Barrett Matt Baumbach Corey Beaulieu Glen Benton Keith Caputo Max Cavalera Dino Cazares Dave Chavarri Tyler Connolly Mike D'Antonio Steve DiGiorgio Matt DeVries Marcelo Dias Dez Fafara Dani Filth Robert Flynn Rhys Fulber Michale Graves Paul Gray Justin Hagberg Matthew K. Heafy Andols Herrick Tom Holkenberg Steve Holt Mark Hunter Howard Jones Joey Jordison Johnny Kelly King Diamond Andreas Kisser Andy LaRocque Jesse David Leach Cristian Machado Logan Mader) Sean Malone Roy Mayorga Dave McClain James Murphy Tommy Niemeyer Daryl Palumbo Nadja Peulen Dave Pybus Josh Rand Jim Root Souren ?Mike? Sarkisyan Josh Silver Acey Slade Mike Smith Peter Steele Corey Taylor Kyle Thomas Jeff Waters Jordan Whelan Christian Olde Wolbers Tim Williams <strong>BANDS REPRESENTED:</strong> 3 Inches Of Blood 36 Crazyfists Annihilator Brujeria Carnivore Chimaira Coal Chamber Cradle Of Filth Cynic Deicide DevilDriver Disincarnate Exhorder Fear Factory Floodgate Front Line Assembly Glassjaw Gruntruck Ill Nino Junkie XL Keith Caputo (solo artist) Killswitch Engage King Diamond Life Of Agony Machine Head Malevolent Creation Mercyful Fate Misfits Murderdolls Nailbomb Obituary Opeth Sadus Sepultura Slipknot Soulfly Spineshank Still Remains Stone Sour Suffocation Theory Of A Deadman Thorn Trivium Type O Negative Vision Of Disorder <em>much more to come...<em></em></em>Wed, 03 Aug 2005 18:23:00 +0000http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/news/57-artists-47-bands-19-tracks-1-release
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